Extremely small genomes in two unrelated dipteran insects with shared early developmental traits. Academic Article

abstract

• We discovered extremely small genomes (1C ~100 Mb) in the dipteran insects Coboldia fuscipes (Scatopsidae) and Psychoda cinerea (Psychodidae). The small genomes of these species cannot be explained by a fast developmental rate, which has been shown to correlate with small genome sizes in animals and plants but might accommodate the combined effects of other developmental traits, including small egg size, thin blastoderm layer, and long-germ development.

authors

• Johnston, J

published proceedings

• Dev Genes Evol

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Schmidt-Ott, U., Rafiqi, A. M., Sander, K., & Johnston, J. S.

citation count

• 18

complete list of authors

• Schmidt-Ott, Urs||Rafiqi, Ab Matteen||Sander, Klaus||Johnston, J Spencer

publication date

• April 2009

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• n0949-944XISSN  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Diptera
• Female
• Genome, Insect
• Male

PubMed Central ID

• 19308443

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/s00427-009-0281-0

start page

• 207

end page

• 210

volume

• 219

issue

• 4

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1007%2Fs00427-009-0281-0